Keep calm and carry on: improved frustration tolerance and processing speed by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).

ABSTRACT: Cognitive control (CC) of attention is a major prerequisite for effective information processing. Emotional distractors can bias and impair goal-directed deployment of attentional resources. Frustration-induced negative affect and cognition can act as internal distractors with negative impact on task performance. Consolidation of CC may thus support task-oriented behavior under challenging conditions. Recently, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been put forward as an effective tool to modulate CC. Particularly, anodal, activity enhancing tDCS to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) can increase insufficient CC in depression as indicated by a reduction of attentional biases induced by emotionally salient stimuli. With this study, we provide first evidence that, c

SUBMITTER: Plewnia C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4383541 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature